V. I. Lenin

To the Trade Union Committee and all Workers of the First State Motor Works[1]

Written:7 April, 1921First Published:PravdaNo. 21, January 21, 1940; Published according to the manuscriptSource:Lenin’sCollected Works, 1st English Edition, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1965,Volume 32, page 285Translated:Yuri SdobnikovTranscription\HTML Markup:David Walters&R. CymbalaCopyleft:V. I. Lenin Internet Archive (www.marx.org) 2002. Permission is granted to copy and/or distribute this document under the terms of theGNU Free Documentation License

Dear comrades,

Comrade Smirnov, Chairman of your Trade Union Committee, has
      informed me of the production of motors and has invited me to
      attend the ceremony on April 7.

Please accept my congratulations, comrades, on the success of
      your efforts and the anniversary of the courses for
      mechanics. With all my heart, I wish you vigorous pursuit of
      your work, in which you are sure to score further
      successes. They are of especial significance from the standpoint
      of the whole mass of workers and peasants, because, the
      development of motor production in Russia, with her abundant oil
      resources, holds out the possibility of organising the supply of
      peasant farms with efficient and low-cost machines. You must do
      all you can to make motor manufacture an even greater
      success.

With best wishes and communist greetings,

[1]Lenin’s
      reply to a letter from the Trade! Union Committee of the First
      State Motor Works informing him about the production of motors
      and inviting him to attend a ceremony on April 7, 1921. Lenin
      sent his congratulations Wishing his message to be cabled to the
      workers at the right time, he wrote; “To be sent at 12
      o'clock.”